Dilnot george ed (7 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: very good. Frontispiece, several black & white illustrations. xix, 300 pages. 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, cloth slightly edgeworn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Reprinted from the edition of 1828. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper. Part of the "Famous Trials Series". …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First US edition ("made and printed in England"). Original cloth. About fine, crisp copy. Frontispiece of the courtroom scene. This 1873 trial had international ramifications at the time, as four Americans were behind it and two had fled the country by the time their forgeries were discovered. The detective William Pinkerton, in London on other business, became accidentally involved in the development of the case.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First US edition ("made and printed in England"). Thick 8vo. Original cloth. About fine, crisp copy, one page with a bit of the margin missing from the open end, as if roughly opened but probably a manufacturing fault, as the missing bit is not on the conjugate leaf. Frontispiece with period illustration of the "dramatis personae." This edition reprints the contemporary account by James Curtis. The murder of Maria Marten, known to history as the Red Barn Murder, was one of the most notorious of its era.…

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with grey and cream slip-case. Cover slightly marked. Slip-case worn and soiled. 330mm x 260mm (13" x 10"). iv, 101pp + plates. 76 colour, sepia, and b/w plates. A lavishly produced book. Heavy book - extra needed for overseas shipping. Black hardback half-leather cover.…

Hardcover / Hardback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. Famous Trials Series. Gen. Editor: George Dilnot. Illus. 274pp. 8vo. h/back. Red cloth/black lettering. Browned and foxed edges, tiny 'Wildy' label to fpd, sl. sunned sp. Vg+.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. 1st Edn. Famous Trials Series. Gen. Editor: George Dilnot. Illus., Appendices. 275pp. 8vo. h/back. Blue cloth/gilt lettering. With the usual fading to sp. which has encroached onto fr. and back covers (see image), o/w Vg+.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition ("made and printed in England"). Original cloth with dust jacket. About fine, crisp copy in good dust jacket which is price-clipped, has one very small hole in the spine panel, and is chipped at the top right corner of the spine panel, along the top edge of the front panel, and at the lower inside and outside corners of the front panel, at the chip in the lower right corner a closed tear ascends for a couple of inches. Based on an 1876 case involving corruption within the Detective Branch of Scotland Yard.…